Will This Trick Your Brain?
Adults Science
Your eyes and brain are pretty amazing!
Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion
Adults Science
Finalist of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2016
What is obesity?
Adults Science
Obesity is an escalating global epidemic. It substantially raises the probability of diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and cancer.
What Does Your Accent Say About You?
Adults Science
Can science explain the way you speak?
How the choices you make can affect your genes
Adults Science
Here's a conundrum: Identical twins originate from the same DNA ... so how can they turn out so different - even in traits that have a significant genetic component?
Should You Be Worried About Zika?
Adults Science
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in monkeys through a network that monitored yellow fever.
Holding and Explosion at 20,000 fps
Adults Science
I always thought firing from the center was the best way to do it. Turns out I'm probably wrong.
How the food you eat affects your brain
Adults Science
When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body: your brain.
Celsius Didn't Invent Celsius
Adults Science
Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name.
How Do Lie Detectors Work?
Adults Science
Can you tell whether or not someone is lying? Greg Foot explains whether or not lie detectors actually work.
Black Hole Comparison
Adults Science
This Crazy Black Hole Comparison Will Definitely Blow Your Mind
We Can Now Edit Our DNA. But Let's Do it Wisely
Adults Science
Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could lead to treatments for genetic diseases.
How Big Can a Person Get?
Adults Science
Some animals, like the blue whale, keep getting bigger and bigger over time! How big are humans able to grow?
What Is Something?
Adults Science
What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?
What Happens When Your Brain Is Split
Adults Science
What Happens When Your Brain Is Split In Two - And You Survive?
Why do some people have seasonal allergies?
Adults Science
Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, though, this explosion of new life probably inspires more dread than joy. So what's behind this annual onslaught of mucus? Eleanor Nelsen explains what happens when your immune system goes rogue.
Mimic Octopus
Adults Science
Most Intelligent Mimic Octopus In The World
How Long To Fall Through The Earth?
Adults Science
Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute!
Backwards Brain Bike
Adults Science
Destin from Smarter Every Day challenged me to learn to ride the Backwards Bran Bike for 50 meters.
How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity.
Adults Science
Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never be able to reach, no matter what? It turns out there are. Far, far more than you might have thought...
How do we separate the inseparable?
Adults Science
Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It's easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful.